Fourteen Hearts - Day 6

One of my favorites!  These die cut chipboard words from Maya Road work great for valentine messaging.  Our little black bird shows up to perch on this sweet card.

Fourteen Hearts - Day 5

Background paper for all these valentines come from Tim Holtz Wallflower Paper Stash pad, introduced several years ago.  The second I laid eyes on these papers I fell in love and I've never fallen out of love.  Appropriate for valentines, no?

Fourteen Hearts - Day 4

Music notes are fun to pair with birds.  Elements on this valentine are from Creative Impressions, Tim Holtz and Ken Oliver.

And, of course, bits of vintage, hand crocheted doilies.

Fourteen Hearts - Day 3

So glad to use these vintage doilies.  I love them so much, its hard for me to cut them up but once I begin I can't stop!

Add bits of cheesecloth for texture and a little black bird silhouette and valentine is complete.  

Fourteen Hearts - Day 2

Today's valentine features a doily I've cut up.  The flashcards "always", "love", and "adore" are loose and tucked into the corner die cut element

See that little heart brad?  You'll see it again.  ;-)

Fourteen Hearts - Day 1

I was able to grab a couple of days in my studio of unstructured PLAY!
So much fun to not have a deadline or project that I need to get done.
I keep little containers of embellishment bits and pieces that I like but haven't used for whatever reason and I love to just spill those out and start playing.

I had the idea that I wanted to make valentines for all the ladies in my Bible study.  I was on a roll to make a dozen or so different cards and thought "why not just keep plugging and blog a valentine a day for 14 days?"  Works for me!

So here's day 1.  Enjoy!

Simple, Special Creative Impressions Christmas

This year I needed a SIMPLE yet special card to send to family & friends for Christmas.  Easy to achieve with Creative Impressions ribbons & brads!

I positioned the words "Merry Christmas" on a page on the word processing program on my computer.  I created two columns and the words are about 3 1/4 inches from the bottom of the page.  Print onto simple white card stock and cut in half lengthwise.  Fold and you're to complete the cards.

Cut 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inch panels of decorative Christmas paper.  Cut a length of coordinating ribbon and attach to top of Christmas paper.  Affix Christmas brad and adhere panel to the card stock base.

Lots of variations on the design using different ribbons and brads.

Every morning, I complete 6 or 8 cards for mailing.  Super easy and not too time consuming, which was GREAT.  Just what I needed this busy Christmas season!

Even when you've got a lot going on, 

you can come up with simple cards to remember all the loved ones on your list!